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CNET News.com's Declan McCullagh examines why a Republican supporter of online privacy wants to force Net providers to snoop on what Americans do online.

San Francisco-based Penguin Computing has signed a deal to use software from OpenReach to build special-purpose servers that can set up private connections across the public realm of the Internet. OpenReach, based in Wobern, Mass., sells software for setting up these virtual private networks, or VPNs, between computers.

The server is expected to be available within the next month. As part of the deal, the companies will jointly market the product.

Survey finds that police want backdoor to ISP customer data, while the U.S. government worries about cyberattacks. Also: Toyota's electronic woes.

With the machinery of legislation revving up, Sumir Meghani writes that policymakers, privacy advocates and technologists all risk missing the real point in the battle over Internet privacy.